US986683A - Game. - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GLENN W. BUGBE or? sYnAoUsE, NnwyoRK, Assionon To M rror? BR DLnYoOi/i- PANY, or SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 14, 1911.

Application filed June 6, 1910. Serial No. 565,171.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GLENN W. BUGBEE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in game devices in which a rotatable memf ber is normally placed in a locked position or wound up position, and is provided with devices so that the same may be unlocked or released and permitted to automatically rotate in a step-by-step manner.

The device is designed to be used as a target, the target portion proper comprising the rotatable member mounted in a casing back of an opening in one side thereof, whereby when a thrown object or missile passes through the opening and Strikes the rotatable member, it will be released and permitted to rotate in a step-by-step manner.

In the drawings forming part of this application,-Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the Opening in the casing, and the rotatable member back of this opening on which is placed any suitable figure. Fig. 2 is a vertical, sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 showing the manner in which the rotatable element is mounted, also illustrating the stop devices and the coiled spring by means of which the rotatable element is moved when released. Fig. 3 is a sectional, detailed portion corresponding to Fig. 2 but with the rotatable member in the released posit-ion. Fig. i is a sectional plan view on the line 4E4, Fig. 2, showing one of the radial arms carried by the rotatable member and an engagement with the stop or bracket on the casing; also the stop for causing the radial arms and bracket to look again after the rotatable member has been released.

Referring to the drawings in detail, a; and b designate the front and back members of the casing which are secured to each other by means of the block 0. The front member a is provided with an opening d, and located in the rear of this opening is arotatable disk member 6 which is supported by means of the winding-shaft f and plates f -for connecting the shaft and disk member. The shaft is operated by means of the key 9 on the outer side of the front member a. Se-

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cured to the inner end of the winding-shaft f and to the pin it is a spiral spring 2', whereby, by means of the key g, the spring may be wound up and the rotatable member 6 will be driven in the opposite direction when the spring uncoils. In order to hold the spring in a wound condition, the rotatable member 6 is provided with radially pro jecting arms 7' which engage the brackets 70, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, when the spring is in a wound condition. Located adjacent the bracket 7:; is a stop m for preventing the arms j, or the rotatable member 6, from tipping at too great an angle when the member 6 is struck by means of a projectile passing through the opening cl after the same has been thrown by the operator. When the rotatable member is in this position, as shown in Fig. 3, the arm j is disengaged from the bracket 70 permitting the rotatable member 6 to be driven by the spring 2' so that the next arm will come up against the bracket is and bring into view another figure which is borne by the rotatable member in front of the opening (Z, the figure shown in this instance being the face of a clown in caricature, although any other design may be borne by the rotatable member.

The curved surface 70 of the stop at causes the arm 7' to be deflected against the stop 70 after rotating through an are from one stop to the other. The dotted line circles 0 in Fig. 1 represent in outline other designs.

In operation, the rotatable member 6 is placed under tension by rotating the key 9 and the game is played by throwing a projectile through the opening 0?, as described, which unlocks the rotatable member from the bracketv is, allowing the spring to unwind in the Opposite direction and successively bring into view the various figures that are borne by the rotatable member, the locked position of the rotatable member showing the figure in registration with the The member 6 will continue to rotate in a step-by-step manner from one stop to the other as Often as the same is disengaged by means Of a projectile striking the same.

What I claim, is

1. In a game apparatus, a casing, a disk member rotatably mounted therein, a radial arm mounted thereon, a bracket on the casing engaged bvthe arm for preventing the rotation of the disk member, a spring located between the disk member and the easing for placing said member in a wound-up condition, and a stop provided with a curved surface adapted to be engaged by the arm for causing the disk member to unwind in a step-by-step manner, substantially as dethrough the casing for supporting the disk member, a coiled spring secured to the shaft and easing, the front member of thecasing having a bracket extending inward from the inner face of the front memberandwith vwhich a projecting arm on the disk member engages to retain said member in locked position, the arm and-bracket construct-ion being made to permit the disk to tip inward when struck, and a stop m to cause the arm to engage the bracket after the disk member has been released, as described.

GLENN W. BUGBEE. Witnesses:

ROBERT P. BROWN, PETER J. BRANG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. C.

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